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$163,000 – $224,070
Listed on LaunchDarkly’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.
What this role is
Lead a backend engineering team building LaunchDarkly's AI agent evaluation and control platform, managing product delivery while mentoring engineers across distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure. Suited for managers comfortable balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership in a fast-growing startup environment.
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What they ask for
Required
- 3+ years software engineering experience
- 2+ years managing backend or infrastructure engineers
- Product management partnership and estimation skills
- Cross-timezone communication and collaboration
- Engineer coaching, mentorship, and performance management
- Observability practices: metrics, tracing, alerting, structured logging
- Production incident response experience
Nice to have
- Go or Python experience (or comparable backend languages: Java, Rust, Ruby)
- Familiarity with AI providers: Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Gemini
- Knowledge of AI tooling: Langchain, Arize